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August 09, 2011

That liberal media fails us again..

Have you seen, anywhere, in any media, or even heard reported or repeated on NPR, the following sentence? "We have changed our assumption on this because the majority of Republicans in Congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues, a position we believe Congress reinforced by passing the act."

The graf is on page 4 of S & P's official explanation of their fateful downgrade of US credit rating. It explains why they believe Congress -- even the newly-mandated "Gang of Twelve" -- will be unable to deal with the U.S. debt crisis.

And what is it that S & P (who are assholes and stupid, btw) thinks should be done? Why, it's get new revenue. And who's being stubborn about new revenue? It sure ain't the president and the Democrats who agreed to give away the farm to get an agreement. The intransigence is, as the S&P clearly states, from the GOP.

Hartmann posits that maybe, because the paragraph is way down on page 4 that lazy reporters might have missed it, although he adds that this is in the very first sentence of the report:

We lowered our long-term rating on the U.S. because we believe that the prolonged controversy over raising the statutory debt ceiling and the related fiscal policy debate indicate that further near-term progress containing the growth in public spending, especially on entitlements, or on reaching an agreement on raising revenues is less likely than we previously assumed and will remain a contentious and fitful process.

This crisis was caused by House tea party stubborness about taxes. The Republican leaders could not or would not cross them.

Reporters report this depressing story as both sides mired down in ideology when actually President Obama offered $4 trillion in cuts and a relatively modest (by our lights) increase in new revenue by way of closing tax loopholes for corporations and the very wealthy. It was a deal that would have satisfied these Wall St. jerks, and given R's more than they asked for.

We get why someone like Lush Rimjob may not mention such a detail; but Hartmann wonders if it's because

... many reporters -- and virtually all of the television talking heads -- are themselves relatively high income-earners who don't relish the idea of higher taxes?

Or maybe

that Republicans will punish them by denying them "access" -- i.e. refusing to show up on their programs -- which is the career and show kiss-of-death for radio and TV programs that rely on big-name politicians to work?

The teaparty GOP got us here by political extortion with brinkmanship over the debt ceiling, S&P is clear about that. Republicans not only provoked it but are gleefully promising to repeat it at every opportunity. All the while insisting it's Obama's fault.

the hag write "watching babes on {FNC}"....yes , we males prefer watching "babes" to someone who looks like Joanie, we plead guilty.....when the hag write "babes" we feel her implied conceit that these women are all dumber then she is ......FNC blonde "babes" Megyn Kelly and Liese Wiel both have law degrees as does brunette FNC "babe" Kimberly Guilfoyle....Liese and Kimberly are former bigtime prosecutors..... Foxnews blonde superbabe anchor Martha McCallum has a B.A. from St. Lawrence University... the hag probably assumed she was a community college girl at best who got a free ride into a tv news career because of her awesome looks......hahahahahaahah ... jealousy is not an attractive emotion......

Three GOP candidates have now been declared winners in WI and of the undeclared races, one GOP incumbent leads and the other 2 are slightly behind. Looks like the nanny statists propped up by the union thugs are going to fall short - despicable bastards.

There are also the 2 Democratic incumbents trying to hold on to their seats in another election next week and at least one of them deserves to get bumped off after deserting the state and not performing their elected duties and being obstructionists.

Jeff Rumage-Whitefish Bay Patch:
BREAKING: Democratic Party of Wisconsin spokesman Graeme Zielinski calls a press conference and accuses Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus of "tampering" with votes for Menomonee Falls. He said she is "sitting on" the votes, and he will be back with more details. "

Joe Petrie-Patch:
In the state Supreme Court race in April, there were 11,731 votes cast in Menomonee Falls. incumbent Justice David Prosser won there with 8,459 votes, to 3,267 for challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg."

Folks, tomorrow as i announce the successful copletion of my two day trade in OXGN (entry point tuesday was $1.44), my first publicly predicted trade, after years of Starthewonderdog baiting me, like a rude, stupid lttle kid, to announce such a trade/prediction, we will all see whether he will man up and congratulate me. Or not. we all pretty much know it will be thE "NOT" option

Pete
I visit many sites that have different ideas than my own. I have been to Log Cabin sites. I am a straight male that had hated gay men for years. Being willing to get to know gays that are not child molesters helped me get past that. Even stranger (STFU joanie) is while hating gay men, a couple of my best friends were gay men.
The same reason I come here. Most posters here are feisty but entertaining. Can even learn something now and then.
The only one here intolerable is the puss infested anus and bigot joanie. I just laugh her off as a frustrated old hag, living a lonely life, vicariously through the net. I suspect that she doesn't like me very much either.

It looks like the Republicans have held 4 of the six seats in Wisconsin. That will make the recall election of two democrats next week moot, but it would be nice if the Republicans can punt both of them.
You get the straw joanie.

Justice prevails - Darling is called the winner. Maybe the GOP can pick up one more next week against one of the obstructionist Democratic incumbents. Voter fraud is mostly a Democratic party disease - never was conclusive evidence on the Diebold voting machines - it was a convenient strawman for the libs to use - inspired by their Bush derangement syndrome, for which one should receive shock therapy - Coils still has it.

Joanie, someone like you who can't admit they are wrong or missed something and whenever someone calls you on it, you lash out at them. Did you ever stop and think why you do that ? Only a bonafide biotch would be that way, but that's only the tip of that iceberg. BTW - Your perverted evil idol, George Soros won a bet on the downgrade, worth ~ $300,000. As I said last week, he was smiling as that happened - there's a special place in hell reserved for that sonnuvabiotch.

AS for me lashing out, reread your post and try to make sense. You're beginning to sound more and more like Gollum. Must be sitting on your couch all day letting other people think for you. Brain cells - you know - use 'em or lose 'em. There may still be time...

when did i say i was takign advice on stocks over her Buttercup- i said i was still trading from over here......i don't need any advice....oh, and Starthwrwonderdog?.....my stock OXGN is up 9% right now , while thw Dow is down 375 points in the red..... four hours to go, OXGN will go much higher

my desktop background is set on a photo of a huge mansion at the cliffside end of a Malibu street. It is not a celebrity house- IT IS owned by some captain of industry or business. a Germanic name if i remember.... it absolutely dwarfs and humiliates the house sitting to the norht of it. wow this mansion is so cool- the pool's terrace goes right up to the egde of the steep, chalky cliff- a vertical drop. in the front there is a long, oval palm-lined loop drive leading out ot the huge, towering front gate. This has to be the biggest mansion in Malibu- top 5 at least. "What is best in life? Humiliating your neighbors , haters, disrespecters and sneerers with the opulence, size and majesty of your cliffside mansion...." anyone know this house?........

the numbers aer in......i'm not perfect.....my trigger finger is a bit slow, need to work on that, but i still got out at 1.60 , a five cent gain for the day. MY stock OXGN was up about 4% at the close of the day, not bad with the DOW ending 520 points in the red. That gives me a 16 cents for the two days long completed trade. $1.44 to $1.60= 16 cents which equals about %11.5 in profit. remember, two 10% trades a week equals a 100 percent return, or a double of your money, in five weeks time. At that rate, 5 thousand dollars turns into 5.12 million dollars in a year, fifty weeks, with two weeks off for vacation

Starthewonderdog, that is the first and last time i will indulge you in giving you a stock pick for the following morning. I gave you OXGN which had a high of the day of 1.77. if you had bought last night before the close at around 1.55 and pulled the trigger near the high of the day today , you could have had a profit of between 13-15 percent, not bad for a one day trade with the market between 300 points and 550 points down for most of the day. we all expect you to STFU now. Back to the doghouse, Bowser.

Good job Tommy, but you should have listened to me. I was yelling at the computer at about 10:00 this morning, yelling at you to pull the trigger at $1.68. At 1.75 I thought OK, he knows more than I read on google.
But, it really looks like the king of purchace I would make and hold. I'd think that it would not take much for it to get back up passed $5.00-6.00.

bwhahaha i heard you yelling.... thanks Chucks..... my lower entry point from yesterday saved the trade for me , and kept me over that 10% profit threshold i want to try to stay above each trade...a very nice thing if youre able to do it. very nice and extremely difficult. in hindsight i should have sold when it spurted up to 1.80, very shortly after i bought in yesterday. i held it over because there was earnings reports and a conference call scheduled for today after close of market today. i was expecting a big runup into the close today , breaking 1.80 and above. News must have leaked about 2:30 because the stock tumbled quickly then and never really recovered. the uninspiring report/cc was confirmed when the numbers and conference came out and the price tanked , although it came back up to 1.60 at the end of afterhours trading. its best for me to get over my trigger block snd pull the trigger on these spikes now, like the one to 1.80. The spikes and downturns come so much faster and more extreme now due to hedge funds and their computerized trading. Still tinkering with my trigger skills and strategy, but i think once i get those refined ill really be ready to achieve my full potential. Yes, OXGN s a good stock to hold long term, especially getting in now at a buck and chang. it was three or four dollars last spring when i was trading it. lots of promising cancer drugs in their pipeline.

oh ... i get it...Buttercup is sayin she wouldnt' take stock advice from ME since i'm here in Monaco in August......and only stupid rubes from Beaumont Texas go to Europe in August...ohhh..alrighty then... i'll hve to tell that to the guy from California who keeps his million dollar black Ferrari Enzo in a high security garage over here, to drive around when he comes to visit. I met him at the hotel bar last night. Hell of a nice guy, name of Derek. Derek is taking time off ftom his business concerns in L..A. to spend the whole month of August over here in Monte Carlo. Derek must be stupider than he looks.

Continue to play your make-believe games and imaginary stock purchases, Tommy and some day just may be you can do with real money. Bwahahaha You must be doin your illusory trading by the pool because your all wet. Now, do you have anything to offer on this topic.
Btw: I do no trading in the market and I've never asked you for a stock tip, your imagination is on overdrive again.

Star, you're the same bastardboy, posing under different names (one was "Dori fan" or somethign asinine like that) who has been daring and badgering me for years to make a stock prediciton in advance and prove thaT I can make money in the market, instead of telling you the results of my trades after the fact. You give yourself away with the "imaginary stock purchases" crap. Someone liek you will claim that im lying when i say i bought OXGN at 1.44 yesterday and held overnight, because i cant prove it here, but i can prove that i gave you OXGN last night as a stock to get into today. Not only was OXGN one of the few stocks today that rose to over ten percent at anytime today, as the DOW posted numbers between 300-500 in the red all day, it actually stayed close to ten percent up in the green, or better ,for most of the day. I gave you a perfect stock to make money on, and not one only a hedge fund manager with a supercomputer could profit on. Plenty of time for you to buy in low at the beginnign of the trading day, and almost the whole rest of the day to sell at a nice profit. I gave you what you've been demanding all this time, fool, but you're still too much of a punk and a poltroon to give me credit for it. Of course we all knew this, here, already. You've just proved how trivial and childish you are, once and for all. Youre liek that young white dude in the new movie coming out whose Arab or Pakistani -American friend ridicules for still eating "lunchables", then calls him a "manchild". bwahahahahahh

Dream on, my boy this is America and achieving one's dreams is still a possibility, whether you operate from a secluded basement, public library or Monaco, it doesnt matter. Just remember you impress people not by what you say, but what the world see's you do. Exemplified to the utmost by how the world now see's our esteemed President. Sweet dreams my man I wish you well.

Finally had a chance to read the links you posted, joanie. Both interesting takes on explaining possible reasons for Obama's failure. Westen's theory that Obama "doesn't understand bully dynamics--in which conciliation is always the wrong course of action..." and his statement that "the arc of history does not bend toward justice through capitulation cast as compromise" seem to capture both the far left and far right approaches to politics. Having spent the last 30+ years in higher education, both as a student and as an administrator, provided me with such a different doctrine-- that consensus through compromise is always the ultimate goal. The two strategies couldn't be more at odds, could they? BTW, you know Feingold is a Harvard grad. Uh-oh. :)

Glad you read them. Feingold may be Harvard (I didn't know that) but he acts like a Yalie! While I find both articles informative and agree with much they say, I really think Obama is a closet conservative.

Beaumont Texas- isn't that near where Bernie Ward's hellhole feferal prison was befor he got transferred to Lompoc in California? The one that Bush sent him too as payback for all the htings he said on thair? Will KGO rehire Bernie when he gets out in about three years? Does he deserve his old job back? what are the odds? anyone?...... Buehler?

Romney in Iowa at state fair on bails of hay talking about his record as a businessman: "I'm a company man - sometimes successful, sometimes not." He never said he buys companies, sells off the parts, and puts people out of jobs. Just a regular guy. I wonder if his father would be proud of him today?

...Following a mid-1967 remark that his earlier support for the Vietnam War had been due to a "brainwashing" by U.S. military and diplomatic officials in Vietnam, his campaign (for President) faltered even more, and he withdrew from the contest in early 1968. ... Romney (became) Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Romney's ambitious plans for housing production increases for the poor, and for open housing to desegregate suburbs, were modestly successful but often thwarted by Nixon.

Returning to private life, Romney advocated volunteerism and public service, and served as a regional representative of the Twelve within his church.

He said over and over "I will not raise taxes." People do not understand taxes buy security, infrastructure and a decent life. These new Republicans are disgusting.

Peter B fills in for Rothmann and Pat Thurston is filling in for Gene Burns so Peter B fills in for Pat Thurston on Sat morning. Romney got heckled when he parroted the Surpremes by saying "corporations are people too"

I saw that. I watched almost his whole speech on those bails of hay. Unfortunately, the main heckler was an older woman who stated getting grief from another spectator and the crowd ended up lightly cheering his oft-repeated "no more taxes" finish.

Randi just had a guess caller who said the Dems may ask the Justice Department to investigate the returns form two districts. Like 2000, exit polls showed hugely different numbers than the final count. Apparently, cnnnected to the right's favorite vote counter who managed the results in the Prosser win.

We truly need some cleaning up of elections in this country. Would someone tell me please what our Attorney General does all day?

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